Tamlyn Currin, Jancis Robinson’s main coordinator/taster for her Languedoc selection, gave us a farewell fanfare with a most generous and touching goodbye, and a handful of poetic, intuitive and yet thoroughly analytical tasting notes, reminding us yet again how valuable is the insight and support of wine critics, writers and tasters to the consumer and […]
“Pale, luminous, and exuding notes of almonds and spices, this well-made, intense white wine becomes both rich and tonic on the palate, with a well-integrated and noble touch of bitterness.” This is what Le Figaro’s wine writer, Valérie Faust, tasted in our AOP Limoux blend, la Trilogie. This wine is made only in years that indulge […]
A Prix d’Excellence was again awarded to the Rives-Blanques range in the latest edition of this guide to French wines. Occitania (Mauzac) has real personality … with great richness on the palate …a purebred with all the hallmarks of its terroir, they said. Odyssée (Chardonnay) surprises with its lovely mouthfeel and complexity Dédicace (Chenin blanc) […]
The authoritative guide to French wines selected our two Chenin blancs – one dry, one late harvested; and our two Mauzacs – one sparkling and one dry, for its newly published guide to the 8000 wines in France they best liked. 35,000 wines were tasted for this latest selection. Blanquette de Limoux – Mauzac […]
The March issue of his Magazine, the doyen of Dutch wine-writers, Hubrecht Duijker, also known as the Vinpressionist, features the Rives-Blanques Odyssée in his selection of the month. Odyssée 2020, our Limoux Chardonnay, “has the allure of a Burgundy […] in everything but its price”, he wrote. “Its juicy notes of nuts, toast, and sweet wood, lead to […]